Speaking of not repling back to the list. I think I sent this Rusty and not to the list. But if I did forgive me, its been a long week already. * * * Just how many contests are TOO many contests? IMH
As far out there as this idea may seem at first it really does have a lot of merit. What better way to expose many more ops from the "DC" folks below 30MHz and the "Joe HT" crowd; those who would not
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 08:17:38 -0500
I don't think there are too many contests, especially on VHF+. If you do not have or do not want to be on the microwaves, there are really only three ARRL and one CQ contest all year long that attrac
This idea is interesting. However, based on the screaming and yelling on this and other reflectors concerning much less drastic changes to VHF contests, I can't imagine this being supported by the V
This is a fascinating idea. It would do wonders to increase activity for both the VHF contest and FD VHF stations. 73, Tom K6EU _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing l
Kenneth E. Harker wrote: The ARRL June VHF QSO Party is _the_ premier VHF+ competition of the year for North America. It sees _by far_ the most operations of any VHF+ competition all year long. From:
Author: "Kenneth E. Harker" <kenharker@kenharker.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:51:33 -0500
Yeah - OK. The January contest gets the most log submissions. I think this has been historically so because of club competition. But for those _not_ living in W1/W2, June has a lot more activity, as
620 is not the final number. Paper logs are not included yet, for example. 725 is a good estimate to use. 771 average They are pretty close. Compared to 1996 the number of logs in June has dropped by
Kenneth E. Harker wrote: The January VHF Sweepstakes wins..."by far". Yeah - OK. The January contest gets the most log submissions. Hi Kenneth, I didn't mean to "tie you to the tracks". I was simply
One of the nice things about the June VHF Contest is the sporadic E on 6M. (And, one of the nice things about the september contest is the lack of Es, which encourages other (many weaker) signal mode